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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Hachinohe in Japan


Earthquake location 40.2282S, 142.2482WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/06/19 / 2019-06-27 19:29:45 / June 27, 2019 @ 7:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000466b. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000466b. Exact location of event, depth 54.75 km, 142.2482° East, 40.2282° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.75 km (34 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:29:45 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Misawa, Yamada, Ichinohe. The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 70 km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2482° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2282° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-27 19:29:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-27 22:22:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.062 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000466b Id of event.
Event Code 7000466b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000466b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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